Shove used in a sentence

Shove in a sentence as a noun

I've been poor, but if push came to shove, I always had a middle-class mother I could move back to.

Is he the kind of guy who will shove technology decisions down the throats of engineers?

This type of "people of political group X _say_ this thing, but when push comes to shove they're really like this" can be applied to any group you'd like.

Shove in a sentence as a verb

Personally, I think it's a good thing when the project's technical leaders can shove all that other stuff onto somebody else.

Modern classification schemes are so arbitrary and error-prone as to be essentially just a painful way to satisfy scientists' compulsion to shove things into neat little cubbies and has the negative side-effect of scaring students away from an otherwise fascinating subject.